Welcome to Lyman C, Hunt Middle School. Hunt Middle School is an environment where every student is recognized and valued as an individual learner and is encouraged to embrace their curiosity. Our Hunt families represent many different ethnicities and backgrounds, which reflect the remarkable diversity of Burlington.
Our talented faculty and staff are innovative professionals dedicated to developing curriculum and programming that supports our students’ academic and emotional growth. Throughout the middle school experience, teachers encourage students to develop flexible thinking and problem-solving skills through hands-on projects, group projects, and open-ended questions.
Our Learning Center has a Maker Space, which is a collaborative workspace for making, learning and sharing concepts that use high-tech to no-tech tools. Our students currently have 1 to 1 Chromebooks and have access to iPads as well.
During the school year, our students can participate in many before and after school activities such as Math Counts, theatre, music lessons, and a variety of competitive sports teams.
As students move through their three years at Hunt Middle School, they will develop skills in communication, collaboration, and self-expression. They will leave 8th grade confident and academically prepared for their high school years.
Who Was Lyman C. Hunt?
Lyman C. Hunt was born January 3, 1891 in a farm in Fairfax, Vermont. He went to a one-room school until high school, 1904. Lyman graduated in 1908 from Bellows Free Academy in Fairfax, Vermont. In June of 1912, Hunt received his A.B. degree at U.V.M., and received his Master’s Degree in 1938 at Columbia Teachers College.
In 1912, Hunt began his teaching career at McIdoes Falls, Vermont and then moved on to McIdoes Academy, where he was principal, coach and janitor. Lyman C. Hunt was also principal of Champlain High School in New York, Peoples Academy of Morrisville, Vermont and Spaulding High School in Barre, Vermont.
Mr. Hunt served for 35 years from 1922-1957, as Burlington’s Superintendent of Schools, and was in this position the longer than any other superintendent in Vermont. In 1965, he was Essex’s representative who helped develop legislation. In his efforts to advance education, both locally and in the region, he displayed integrity, good judgement, patience, tact, and perseverance: yet remained modest, quiet and unassuming.
